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Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 17:52:04 -0500
From: Joan Touzet <joant@atypical.net>
To: dev@couchdb.apache.org
Subject: Re: Unique instance IDs?
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User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15)

-1 on using URI/URLs, for the simple fact that mobile and desktop
devices often don't have a stable hostname and/or IP address. This is a
huge area where CouchDB is used, increasingly so, and attempting to tie
a DB UUID to something inherently variable on the platform is doomed to
fail.

Renaming my PC or phone, getting a new DHCP address, connecting to a
different network or changing the MAC address of my NIC should not
invalidate my DBs, their "UUIDs", or cause unreasonable problems for
replication.

-Joan